Have you ever considered what you can do with plastic eggs? Students love these little containers so turn them into quick and easy learning stations that make learning fun. These containers are super cheap right after Easter so be on high alert!
Here are some of the ideas I put together today:
My kindergarten teachers loved these little math and literacy stations and I had so much fun using them with some of their students. What is it about "little pieces" that kids love so much? I had some of these plastic eggs from last year but I bought more at Walmart recently. Usually I buy them at the Dollar Store but they had slim pickings this year. The baskets that I put them in are from their and you get 3 of them for a buck. I am going to make these a flash freebie this week for a few days and then I will put them in my TpT store.
What is your best idea for these eggs? Leave me a comment and come back for the freebie if you can use these. They are aligned to the Common Core and all of them have student response sheets. I hope you like these ideas as much as I do!
84 comments:
Wow Fran these centers look amazing! I only have the carrot and duck "eggs." I'll have to check other Walmart's for the others because they are too cute! In the past I used them for addition centers and for counting money. I adore your creations! :o)
Karyn
Kideducator@comcast.net
I would put cvc words in them and have the kinders "write the room." vhair61215@gmail.com
I love the eggs! I'll have to go look for them and use them for simple centers like you did! Thank you!
Cute ideas! I love the froggie numbers set. I will have to go check out Walmart!
I would have a hunt for eggs with a special task in each egg (write your first/last name etc.).
Your ideas are great!
Children pick and match with another child - problem and sum, lower case/upper case letters, etc.
Thanks, Fran, you are awesome.
Thanks for the great ideas Fran - I would use them for magnetic letter sorts ( working on tricky vowel sounds !)
Hi Fran thanks for all the great ideas ! I would use the eggs for tricky vowel sorts with pictures...
Looks like I am shopping for eggs today! So cute and awesome activities for the kiddos! thanks
We use them for onset/rime activities! So fun! Thanks for sharing!
Wow! My kinders can use some fun egg activites to get them through this week before Spring Break. Thanks.
These look amazing!! I love to use manipulatives that make learning exciting and fun!!
Great ideas Fran! I would use them for a rhyming game and the response sheet would have them spell the rhyming pairs.
I love your ideas! I would use the clear ones to hold dice for math games and I would also use them for an cvc egg hunt in the classroom. Thanks for sharing!
Jada
Daisy Days for Learning
How fun! My kinders would love this :)
Thanks for posting before Easter so I can be on the lookout before quantities at stores run out! Such simple ideas, but will bring HUGE delight!
So cute! My little ones would love these.
Lindenhofenc@gmail.com
Such great ideas! I love using eggs for initial/medial/or ending sounds in words.
I just stocked up on eggs again. Perfect timing! Thanks.
Love these ideas, especially the ones using the "frog" eggs! Going to try them with my Kinders.
Hi Fran. I like putting magnet letters for sight words in them. Children unscramble the word and write it on an egg on the recording sheet and color the egg the same color as the plastic egg. The plastic eggs are numbered and the ones on the recording sheet are also numbered. Cynthia Hart
Great/cute ideas! I have done addition/subtraction problems and answers with eggs.
Great ideas. If I can find the eggs at my Walmart I
plan to copy all of your ideas.
Thank you!
These are adorable! I am trying to locate these in TPT and they are not there. Also, i am trying to grab the freebie, but can not do that either! Help! :)
You are so creative! I love these ideas!
Outstanding, as usual! Great for fun learning with CVC words and addition and subtraction. Thank you so much!
These are perfect Spring activities for my kinder kiddos!
I like to make "shakers" out of Easter eggs to create a different type of "listening" center! Create sets of 2 by tucking paper clips, cotton balls, aquarium gravel etc. & the students shake & listen to find the 2 eggs which match. smskdg@hotmail.com
I like to make "shakers" out of Easter eggs to create a different type of "listening" center! Create sets of 2 by tucking paper clips, cotton balls, aquarium gravel etc. & the students shake & listen to find the 2 eggs which match. smskdg@hotmail.com
Oh my gosh....LOVE THEM!!! I am running out tonight to look for those eggs!!!! My kiddos would love them!!
Fun, fun, fun (and educational too)
We love using eggs in my classroom. I also use the dice in clear eggs game. I also "hide" things in eggs and have kids write about they think is in them.
Fran, I am so excited to buy theses centers. I have the frog eggs. I love how I can count on you to have great centers to meet the common core standards, fun and easy to manage. Thanks for sharing all your ideas.
I'm always looking to update my centers and I am always looking for new ideas! Next week I'm teaching my kinders about oviparous animals and this will be perfect!
These centers are awesome!! They are easy to differ for all types of learners!! Thanks for the wonderful inspiration!!
Thank you for creating wonderful centers that can be used with all learners!!
I would love these - now to get to the store and buy all those eggs!! I adore the froggys :)
Thanks a bunch!!
Connie
Thanks for all the ideas, Fran! I have used plastic eggs for beginning sounds. I put a small object in each of 24 eggs (one egg for one sound) then have the students "crack" open the egg, identify the beginning sound of the object and put the object into the corresponding beginning letter on a plastic Easter egg tray. The kids love the hidden objects! I have a small apple, button, cat earring, dog pin, etc.
OOO, love it! It would be perfect for rhyming words!
Cindy
LOVE it! I would use them for rhyming words!
These are adorable. I would put two dice in them and use them as a shaker to add the dice together.
I love to use different "holiday" containers like these eggs to do sight word scrambles. I put the individual letters in each one and the kids have to put the sight word back together. Love these eggs you showed!
They love using centers with eggs. I have them build words from the letters inside.
They love building words from letters inside the egg.
These are adorable!
Thanks for the great ideas! I would use them for math and literacy. I would have the kids match a number to the corresponding dot picture. I think it would also be fun to make word family eggs. By sliding the onset around, the kids could make new words.
I could so use these. I use eggs for cvc words.
I would love these,
I think they would also be great for compound words.
Your activities look great! I just bought the carrot containers this year and put in cut up letters that spell sight words. In my eggs, I have put letters that spell cvc words. The kids have to build them and then write and illustrate on a recording sheet.
~ Amy
These are so cute! And I haven't seen the frog ones before - I'll have to look for them! I'm thinking about my first grade kiddos and how each egg could have the letters to spell one of their words for the week and they have to unscramble it. Ooh, I could call it "scrambled eggs!"
I admire all your wonderful differentiated ideas for hands-on learning!
These look fantastic. So cute, I've put sight words in them and had the students hunt for them.
I would use these eggs for sight word practice, matching pictures with the correct word. My kiddos would LOVE learning with the different activities.linda.ferrell@mcpherson.com
I use the eggs for ordering numbers, cvc words, and word families. The kids love them!
I use the plastic eggs to match numbers with number values. I also use the eggs for onset and rime activities.
These look great! I love that they are common core aligned…kids love anything they can open and I love that they are learning!
I am heading for Walmart after school tomorrow. Hoping they still have some of these goodies. My Dollar Store had nothing. It is not a very big one.
THYordan@aol.com
I use eggs to put letters in for sight words and then they have yo unscramble the word.
I use Eggs to hold letters and the kids make sights words.
I use the eggs and put scrabble letters in them and kids unscramble the words. They love it!
I use them for word families.
Okay friends,
You are all incredible and so clever with all these ideas. I love it. I do not have these up for the flash freebie yet. I still have to finish up the documents. Thanks for your generous words and stay connected. I want to show you one more... I can't resist! Have you seen the carrots? I am in love with those!
I love you all,
Fran
I have those carrots! I love love love them (I use them with your center)! I bought the polka dots over spring break and was wondering what to do with them. Now I need to go on a search for the frogs. Just putting letter tiles in the eggs and making words is fun. For math I take some eggs and a tin/basket of some sort and use them to play a missing addend game. Count your eggs, hide some in the basket, and the others guess (figure out) how many you have hidden.
Terri Izatt
KinderKapers
I found some packages of small eggs that I was thinking of putting into bigger eggs and then they could count and record the number of little eggs.
I love Easter eggs too. I like to put different sight words in them and have the students "write the room" as they go on an egg hunt. So fun.
Love your center ideas!! I like to have letter tiles in the eggs and have the kiddos solve for the mystery sight word. I also have the kids roll dice inside and add them together.
Melissa
I use for unscrambling words. I do different levels. Cvc,cvc,sight words, blends, diagraphs, etc.
Super cute! Who couldn't resist these great ideas! thanks for sharing!
I just discovered your blog...WOW! I can't wait to implement some of your ideas in my classroom.
I would use the eggs for a sight word hunt around the room. Students find the egg and build the word with letters.
ylgarcia11@gmail.com
Thank you!
Wow! These are great!! I have used egg before, I put sight words in them and ending sounds.
Thanks for the freebie! I LOVE your stuff! pierceck@gmail.com
WoulD Love To Have These For My Class!
These are great! I already have all the eggs. Love your stuff. Thanks for freebies!
These are great. Thanks for sharing. Love your stuff.
Thanks for you ideas. You are so creative. I have the eggs already. Now I have great activities to go with them.
Thsnk you so much for all of these great ideas! My kiddos wilsllh love it!
Fran, as always...these look GREAT!
Trying to make sure I didn't miss them. ;-) Thanks!
Great ideas Fran! I just bought some eggs last week and wasn't quite sure what I wanted to do with them....now I know! Thank you! :)
I also use plastic eggs for Science. I put a picture of an animal on the outside and the kids have to open the eggs to read "yes" or "no" written on the inside as to whether that animal hatches from an egg. They follow up by drawing animals that hatch from eggs/do not hatch from eggs.
I would put a die in the frog and have students complete ten frames or make tally marks for the number rolled. You could use two dice and student can write addition sentences.
I can't find them on TPT? Do you have them all in one file? What is called? I would love to purchase!!!!
They are all separate files. Go to my TpT store and you will see all of them... Spilling Words, Do Bunnies Make Sounds, Ordering Eggs, and the best one is Growing Syllables. They
are all super cheap and easy to put together. Enjoy!
Fran you are brilliant!!!!!! I love the eggs and SMART centers! Hmmm 4 eggs and 4 kids in a collaborative learning team.... do I spy collaboration???? LOVE LOVE LOVE this post (and you)
Love Katie
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